Colorado Review

I really can’t stay, but baby it’s cold outs…da de dum de do and so it goes…the lyrics to Bing Crosby’s apropos song.

I’m sitting here watching the Mets and St. Louis and wondering why our sad Colorado Rockies can’t seem to get their way anywhere near the playoffs (much less the World Series! Oh, wouldn’t that be a dream!?).

Anyway, my hubby is down at our local watering hole meeting with his two business partners. We own a string of delis and tomorrow we open our fourth just up the road in Eagle!!! The boys have some kinks to work out and what better way to do it than over a cold beer among dead animals (did I mention it’s hunting season and the watering hole I’m talking about is home to a frighteningly LARGE collection of dead stuffed animals? I didn’t mention it? Well, it’s true, it’s true. And let me tell you it’s some scary $*#@!). What I’m trying to get at here is I’m home alone with my two dogs on a snowy night in the Colorado Rocky Mountains and so I think it’s time to break out the Captain Morgan, the container of apple cider I purchased yesterday, some cinnamon sticks and butter and make myself an Apple Cider Buttered Rum. Won’t you join me?

Yes?

Okay, here’s the recipe:

apple cider
spiced rum
unsalted butter
cinnamon sticks

Place the cinnamon sticks and the apple cider in a non-reactive pan and heat on the stove (don’t let it boil, as then it will be too hot to drink). Pour some rum into a pretty little glass, and plop a little piece of butter in with it, then pour enough cider to fill the glass. Stir it up with one of the cinnamon sticks. Voila and Yum!

Now, let’s sit down by the fire and watch some baseball!